400th W&H Convertex comes to India!

Windmӧller & Hӧlscher maintains the leading market and technology position in hot air sealing machines for block-bottom bags. The block-bottom bags produced by its machine are widely known and recognized as Ad Protex bags made of coated woven PP. W&H shipped its 400th Convertex to Samarth Fablon in West Bengal last year where it is producing bags at a speed of 120 bags per minute. W&H engineer Lovely Kumar confirmed that the machine is performing well and at its maximum production capacity, during his last service visit in January.

Samarth Fablon is one of the largest suppliers of PP woven sacks in India having begun their production in 1999. The company has an established track record in the domain of polypropylene (PP) and high-density polyethylene (HDPE) sacks in eastern India. Its managing director Bishnu Agarwal, who has great domain experience, had already earlier purchased a W&H block-bottom machine in 2009. This was India’s first block-bottom machine marking the genesis of block-bottom bag manufacturing in the country.

Polypropylene sack manufacturing is a highly competitive industry with a large number of small-scale units leading to fragmentation. However, major and experienced industrialists generally prefer to invest in proven industrial strength technology for staying ahead of competition. With the installation of another W&H converting machine, Fablon’s owner believes that his plant will continue to create a highly positive impact in the market. Extending further trust in W&H equipment, Agarwal states, “Our W&H plant is running well and we are very happy with the machines’ performance and the W&H service. We decided to rely on W&H equipment once again for our facility.”

Today, the Samarth Fablon group has a unique combination of seven W&H block bottom converting machines. The combined output capacity of the machines is 500 block-bottom bags a minute. No other woven production facility has such a versatile block-bottom converting configuration in India. “The Samarth Group has been a true partner for us. We are thankful to Bishnu ji for bestowing their trust in us once again,” shares Anuj Sahni, general manager, Sales & Marketing, W&H India.

The Covid-19 pandemic led to the country-wide lockdown on 25 March 2020. It will be two years tomorrow as I write this. What have we learned in this time? Maybe the meaning of resilience since small companies like us have had to rely on our resources and the forbearance of our employees as we have struggled to produce our trade platforms.

The print and packaging industries have been fortunate, although the commercial printing industry is still to recover. We have learned more about the digital transformation that affects commercial printing and packaging. Ultimately digital will help print grow in a country where we are still far behind in our paper and print consumption and where digital is a leapfrog technology that will only increase the demand for print in the foreseeable future.

Web analytics show that we now have readership in North America and Europe amongst the 90 countries where our five platforms reach. Our traffic which more than doubled in 2020, has at times gone up by another 50% in 2021. And advertising which had fallen to pieces in 2020 and 2021, has started its return since January 2022.

As the economy approaches real growth with unevenness and shortages a given, we are looking forward to the PrintPack India exhibition in Greater Noida. We are again appointed to produce the Show Daily on all five days of the show from 26 to 30 May 2022.

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